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The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is pleased to invite applications for the Brandon Research Fellowship 2024-2025, funded by generous gifts by Mr Michael Brandon MA, LLB, LLM (Cantab), MA (Yale) (1923–2012) and by Mr Christopher Brandon. The Lauterpacht Centre provides a base for research in Cambridge for legal practitioners and academic…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child, by Georgina Dimopoulos (Routledge, 2022) Decisional privacy gives individuals the freedom to act and make decisions about how they live the…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sarah Nouwen: Peacemaking (23/2023) Unlike intuitively related areas such as dispute settlement, the use of force, the law of armed conflict, human rights and internati…

Opening Times Lent Term ends on Friday 15 March but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the vacation. The library opening times for the Spring vacation will be: Saturday 16 March - Wednesday 20 March inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:45 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:45 Sunday: Closed Thursday 21 March - Th…

The Faculty is delighted that Dr Andrew Sanger has been awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Dr Sanger is Associate Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law where he teaches and supervises international law and global governance, including human rights, political economy, technology and the law,…

The Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) published a report on Human Rights Based Approaches in Healthcare, prepared by Dr Rumiana Yotova, Assistant Professor in International Law and Fellow in Law at Gonville & Caius College. The report provides an overview of the international hum…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Mark Elliott & Nicholas Kilford: Nothing To See Here? Allister in the Supreme Court (20/2023) In the Allister case, it was argued (among other things) that the Norther…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In recent years, there has been growing concern about the use of express trusts to perpetuate wealth inequality and the need to transform trust law to accommodate ESG. To address these challenges, this lecture presen…

On 21 February 2024, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Brazil up to the end of 2012, as well as the Philippines up to the end of 2011. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers ba…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Childbirth, Vulnerability and Law: Exploring Issues of Violence and Control, edited by Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring (Routledge, 2020) This book is inspired by a statement released…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of Cambridge graduates as King's Counsel last month. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall in March 2024. Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website.…

Last week saw a superb achievement for the Cambridge student team, who were winners of the European round of the University of Oxford’s Price Media Law Moot Competition, which was held at the University of Paris from 31 January to 2 February. Run by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, the Price Media Law Moot Court Programme aims to foster and …

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that a bookable group study room is now available for current staff and student members to use. Located in Room F19 on level 1 of the library, the group study room seats up to six people and includes a desk and display screen. The room is available to book for meetings, collaborative work projects and p…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Autonomy, Care and Family Law by Anna Heenan. There is a tension at the heart of family law and policy between the increasing influence of individual autonomy and the demands of caring for children. Individual autonomy envisages decisions made in one's own best interests, whereas d…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The title of the lecture was 'Judges, Jurists and Style', being delivered to an audience of law students, legal academics, and judges. The lecture considered the differences between academic and judicial reasoning st…